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Old 01-16-2008, 01:06 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fxashun View Post
All for a decrease in quality of care and a slight bump in income taxes...for those that pay taxes in the first place that is.
How do you know that???

How much money do Americans pay for health care today?

Be sure to include all the hidden costs, and the huge overheads carried by American corporations.

And the profits made by insurance companies.

The answer is about 17% of GDP

Based on decades of experience in every other industrialised nation it would end up costing less - between 5 and 11% of GDP.

Not hard to believe when Americans have to finance a huge, inefficient health insurance industry alongside of health care providers.

Americans are getting ripped off for health care and most of them don't even realise it.